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That could have been automatically triggered by some kind of dead man's switch.
by blywi 11y ago
That could have been automatically triggered by some kind of dead man's switch.
- gpm 11y agoThe announcment contained information that you couldn't really set up in a dead man's switch payload years earlier > This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt. > > The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms (click here for more information). You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform. http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/
- blywi 11y agoWell, the end of support for Windows XP in 2014 was announced in 2008. Windows Vista and 7 were available, and the Windows 8 launch was at hand before the date of his arrest. But the text omits to mention Windows 8.1 which was announced by Microsoft in 2013, after the arrest but well before the Truecrypt announcement was published in 2014. This could be because Windows 8.1 was only considered a relatively minor upgrade to Windows 8 by the author, or because it's existence was unknown at the time when the text was written. This remains open to speculation, but it does not refute the possibility of a dead man's switch.